Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

I'm told to set the thermostat always to 65°F in order to save energy.

🎸Paul🎹@paul.bsky.social · 21h ago

What temp do you set your AC in the summer? apple.news/Af1naPJAsQWC...

You mean to say "They cannot change your mind if you block them".

I was a 10x coder from 1995 to 2025. Now I am a vibe coder. This angers me more than you can possibly understand.

The unrecognized benefit of the nuclear block is that it's punitive. Instead of toxic posts like "you f***in' moron" they block you. In contrast, twitter selects for engagement, even toxic engagement, so turns into 4chan spew. It's not a left vs right thing, but an anti toxic spew thing.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d ago

while there are problems with anything, the nuclear block is absolutely my second favorite thing that bluesky did. (my first favorite is detach quote, which is another thing that wrecks the way they like to use social media)

I heard a rumor that there is a special Flock camera that contains an imprisoned genie that will give the opener 3 wishes

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

It would be irresponsible of us not to further investigate if each Flock camera does in fact contain a focusing crystal that is actually a diamond

Mr. Potter was right. The Savings & Loan was so irresponsible it was teetering on the edge of insolvency from a single missed deposit even as the postwar boom was taking off. Bailey is a subprime loan shark and Potter would have prevented the global financial crisis.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

acteff.org

At some point (I can't find the reference), it was scheduled to be reopened/refilled on August 10. Aside from the peeling issues, the "nanobubbler" isn't keeping up in the long hot days, so algae blooms. In the shorter cooler days, it might start keeping up. They just have to wait.

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again

When the title editor changes your title to something false, the journalist who wrote the story is still responsible for it. I hate all the journalists covering cybersecurity who excuse the titles "I didn't write it".

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 5d ago

A simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."

A simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."

Truth Melt: Stop Leading With the Lie in Headlines

When the headline is all most people read, leading with a lie spreads it. The Truth Melt: lead with the truth, name the lie only to correct it.

theframelab.org

I would like to see a lawyer's give us context here, for example, why dismiss with or without prejudice? It seems to me they had to move to dismiss, but that the text sets the narrative they aren't at fault -- even though they clearly are. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

DOJ admits Reflecting Pool case doesn't hold water

documentcloud.org

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 5d ago

Incredible. In normal circumstances this whole thing would be a massive embarrassment to the DOJ and the US Attorney in charge of the case.

1/n Emily Wilson is a Homer nerd with a takedown that is as interesting to read as a Batman nerd's takedown of Nolan's "Dark Knight". Doesn't mean I agree, it means I enjoyed it, and learned more about Homer/Batman respectively.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There have been many singularities. The industrial revolution was a singularity. The railroads were. The Internet was. AI is. These things transformed the world in ways we couldn't predict. AI is getting steadily better to the point that ... well, I don't really know.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.

no we aren't. no it isn't. that isn't true

So I did a thing. I was unhappy with any of the "Odyssey" translations so I decided to make my own with Claude Opus 5. - no poetry, just prose - no modern interpretation - frequent explanations as we go along github.com/robertdavidg...

ai-odyssey/book at main · robertdavidgraham/ai-odyssey

Using AI to translate Homer's Odyssey according to my specifications. - robertdavidgraham/ai-odyssey

github.com

Experts don't say. In 1995, they put Eunice Kennedy Shriver on a commemorative (still legal tender) $1 coin when she was still liveing. Is a "commemorative but still legal tender" coin still "currency"? I don't know -- but I don't think this guy knows, either.

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

President Trump's face will appear on a new commemorative coin honoring the nation's 250th birthday. It's one of the many unusual places his likeness has popped up this year.

I went to see "Odyssey" in IMAX 70mm at the 3am showing 30 miles away. I bought 3 seats just for myself so I wouldn't have anybody sitting next to me. This must've angered the Gods or violated Zeus's law, because after the movie I got lost, leaving by the wrong door. ...

xcancel.com/robertgraham...

I stayed up until 5am reading all Trump's election documents so you don't have to. This thread is over on Twitter, though. It's all rehashing well-known stories that election experts have been debating for years, nothing really "new". x.com/robertgraham...

Robert Graham (@robertgraham) on X

🧵1/n Election guy here. I'm going to "live tweet" as I go through Trump's declassified election documents. In his speech, Trump claimed the "deep state" was trying to coverup China's meddling in our...

x.com

I honestly have been disappointed that there haven’t been more Casablanca jokes today

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 4w ago

"the French have really quieted the Moroccans"

This looked horrible in the video, anybody see it in person and can report on it?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last mo.

Is DC okay? This looks more like an attack than a fireworks show.

It's so weird that we continue to have discussions about what's legal or illegal (at the federal level) under Trump.

Robert Graham@erratarob.bsky.social · last mo.

It's not wire fraud because that would imply the Trump FBI investigating, the Trump DoJ prosecuting, and Trump not pardoning them.

It's not wire fraud because that would imply the Trump FBI investigating, the Trump DoJ prosecuting, and Trump not pardoning them.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last mo.

I would be interested in hearing how this *isn’t* wire fraud.

Is open source dead? How can open source programmers keep up with vendors who give their engineers $300k AI token budgets?

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

I asked ChatGPT to redraw this meme for me today because, yes, 30 seconds with Paint is too much effort.

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.

I can't believe people use AI when memes thrown together in 30 seconds using Microsoft Paint are so much funnier.

He's wrong about his tweet that got him suspended, but nonetheless, right about a lot of things. He's a treasure even though he makes mistakes. As he says, his suspension wasn't an attack on free-speech but an exercise of free-speech. Moderation isn't censorship. He's not a victim here.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · last mo.

www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-t...

What happened to Popehat??

What happened to Popehat??